Canada has its own academic fakery problem: Christopher Dummitt in the National Post

Canada has its own Jason Ardays — our versions of the Black British academic who recently committed suicide after it was revealed that he plagiarized much of his academic work and invented a fabulist version of his personal history.

The Canadian versions might not be as outlandish — but they almost certainly exist. The system incentivizes their creation.

Having concocted a caricature of Canadian society as ghoulishly racist, where skin colour and background are said to continuously limit life chances, those who peddle this story of never-ending systemic racism are determined to find those who persevere despite the odds. Present yourself as a social victim who overcame adversity, and there is a market for your story